The Pittsburgh Press (July 26, 1944)
Editorial: Mild reproof
Some London newspapers have chided the liberated Norman French for shaving the heads of women collaborationists. One called the practice the “despicable technique of the Fascists.”
But we have always understood that the Fascists, or rather the Nazis in France and Italy, had not contented themselves with such mild reproof when the collaboration was with Germany’s enemies. Weren’t the concentration camp and the firing squad more typical of their technique?
The hair of the “collaboratrices” will grow back. The patriot victims of the Nazi technique will not return. We do not think that a haircut for those women who fraternized with an enemy is too severe a punishment.